Sound and Loop Counter

Question

Hi all - here's a quick rundown of what I'm trying to do...
The project: A looping banner animation with audio event
sounds
Background: I currently have event sounds of a camera-click
and an audio transition between 5 mc's on my main timeline. I'm
trying to find a way to disable the audio sounds once the movie
plays through one time.
The problem: I can't get my head around it. Do I use a
counter that initiates on the first frame of the loop and next time
it comes through it disables sound or unloads a mc or what?
The sample: You can view the animation here:
http://66.187.132.180/cherryhillevents/
Basically, I want to have the animation play one time - then
on the next pass through - disable the sounds. Thanks for help on
this.

Answer 1

NicknameAlreadyTaken,
> I currently have event sounds of a camera-click
> and an audio transition between 5 mc's on my
> main timeline. I'm trying to find a way to disable
> the audio sounds once the movie plays through
> one time.
Okay.
> The problem: I can't get my head around it.
Free yourself from the timeline, my friend! :) Use
ActionScript to
trigger those sounds, and you'll have complete control over
when they're
triggered. You mentioned a counter, and that makes good
sense. You could
set up a variable in the first frame ...
var counter:Number = 0;
... and set up your Sound instances as you need them. All you
need is an
instance of the Sound class (just like your movie clips are
instances of the
MovieClip class). Put something like this also in frame 1:
var cameraClick:Sound = new Sound();
cameraClick.attachSound("nameOfLibraryCameraSoundLinkageID");
var audioTrans:Sound = new Sound();
audioTransSound.attachSound("nameOfOtherLibrarySoundLinkageID");
In later frames, check that counter's value before you play
a sound:
// frame 20, say
if (counter < 1) {
cameraClick.start();
In your last frame, increment the counter by one, and
gotoAndPlay(2).
Why 2? Because if you go back to the very beginning, you'll
re-initialize
that counter to zero.
Make sense?
Alternatively, you could globally turn down the volume for
all sounds
after the first loop. ActionScript usually gives you half a
dozen ways to
accomlish a given goal. ;)
Here are some short articles that may help you in this
particular
endeavor.
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-loop-three-times
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/actionscript-20/understanding-the-sound-constructor
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-toggle-sound-globally
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/actionscript-20/ojects-building-blocks
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."